1LT Donnelly details the Air Mission Set (AMS) building process used by the 38th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Donnelly relates the AMS process as not doctrinal, nor taught in school, and akin to "solving...

1LT Kurt Lovins served as a platoon leader of Alpha Company, 1st Platoon of the 7-11th Signal Company, 250th Signal Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2009 interview,...

"A couple days after September 11, 2001," said Major Roger Crombie, at the time commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, part of 10th Mountain Division, "we had an idea that we needed to be ready and that something was...

"Central Command had published a concept brief on 4 October 2004 via email," Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds recalled, "that had laid out the requirements to conduct full-spectrum counterinsurgency operations to destroy anti-Iraqi forces (AIF)...

"My first experience with the Global War on Terrorism," said Major Joseph T. Irwin Jr., "was September 11, 2001. I was at Fort Meade, Maryland, with the 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and our mission was to provide military support...

"Our mission is to fight our way in to isolated personnel and fight our way back out," explained US Air Force Major Jeremey Turner, a member of the 66th Rescue Squadron who, from January to April 2002, flew numerous missions in Afghanistan in...

"When someone asks me where I was stationed in Iraq," said Major Christian Teutsch, "it's hard to come up with an answer. I had 22 different command posts over the course of the deployment…. We were constantly being relieved, although we never...

A 2002 high school graduate, Sergeant Melanie Claggett had just started attending Cottey College, a two-year women's college in Neosho, Missouri, when she was activated with the 1011th Quartermaster Company in February 2003. Claggett, trained in...

A combat engineer officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Major Ed Chamberlayne is a veteran of two Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first from June to December 2003 to Iraq where he was in charge of a forward engineer support team...

A company commander in 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment from May 2001 to December 2002, Major Matt Tolle was stationed at Fort Irwin, California, where he was part of the opposing force (OPFOR) for units getting ready to deploy in...

A follow-up interview to the one conducted on 4 November 2004 concerning Colonel (Ret.) Bradford Parsons' involvement in the 98th Division's 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advising mission, this one, as the interviewer put it, focuses more on...

A former Headquarters and Headquarters Battery and later Bravo Battery commander in 2nd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment - a Patriot missile equipped unit - Major Matthew Rauscher, in January 2003, became the assistant operations...

A former medic with the 82nd Airborne Division and a Special Forces qualified medical sergeant, Captain Gregory McCrum was commissioned in May 2002 after graduating from the inter-service physician assistant (PA) program at Fort Sam Houston....

A geography instructor at West Point, Major Brian Doyle deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in June 2005 on a two-month mission to advise the National Military Academy of Afghanistan "on how to begin a curriculum in geography." "They...